"inferior" meaning in Latin

See inferior in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /inˈfe.ri.or/ [Classical], [ĩːˈfɛriɔr] [Classical], /inˈfe.ri.or/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [iɱˈfɛːrior] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|īnferior}} Forms: īnferior [canonical], īnferius [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], īnferior [feminine, masculine, nominative, singular], īnferius [neuter, nominative, singular], īnferiōrēs [feminine, masculine, nominative, plural], īnferiōra [neuter, nominative, plural], īnferiōris [feminine, genitive, masculine, neuter, singular], īnferiōrum [feminine, genitive, masculine, neuter, plural], īnferiōrī [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, singular], īnferiōribus [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], īnferiōrem [accusative, feminine, masculine, singular], īnferius [accusative, neuter, singular], īnferiōrēs [accusative, feminine, masculine, plural], īnferiōra [accusative, neuter, plural], īnferiōre [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, singular], īnferiōribus [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], īnferior [feminine, masculine, singular, vocative], īnferius [neuter, singular, vocative], īnferiōrēs [feminine, masculine, plural, vocative], īnferiōra [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. comparative degree of īnferus; lower in situation or place
    Subsequent, later, latter in time or succession
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-inferior-la-adj-6GEtXQWn Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. comparative degree of īnferus; lower in situation or place
    Inferior or lower in quality, rank, or number
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-inferior-la-adj-aARNJF3V Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: īnfimus [superlative]

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.